# convergent research: side quests

> the fro roster and the orbit around it — the subsidiaries, the incubator's own programs, the founders' other work, and the line beyond convergent.

- 2021– — [e11 bio](https://www.e11.bio/fro) (company, active): connectomics, alameda — andrew payne and todd huffman's brain-mapping fro, the boyden-lab project that was 'the original inspiration' for the model. prism shipped october 2025 (>750x label diversity, 8x tracing accuracy, cc-by-nc); the claim is a mouse connectome in five years for ~$100m. establishment year self-reports inconsistently — announced october 2021, 'launched in 2022' per e11.bio. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/e11-bio), [launched in 2022 (self-reported variance)](https://www.e11.bio/fro), [e11 bio profile](https://www.asimov.press/p/barcoding-brains), [e11 connectomics roadmap](https://e11.bio/blog/roadmap), [e11 as original fro inspiration](https://www.sam-rodriques.com/post/optical-microscopy-provides-a-path-to-a-10m-mouse-brain-connectome-if-it-eliminates-proofreading))
- 2021– — [cultivarium](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/cultivarium) (company, active): the laboratory for extraordinary microbes, watertown — henry lee and nili ostrov's fro for non-model organisms. 106 of 14,000+ atcc organisms have ever been studied; cultivarium built the organism portal, a custom electroporator, and genome-based growth prediction, plus an atcc×igem collaboration. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/cultivarium), [cultivarium profile](https://www.asimov.press/p/cultivarium), [cultivariums custom electroporator](https://www.asimov.press/p/electroporation), [cultivarium×atcc igem collab](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cultivarium-and-atcc-support-igem-teams-striving-to-advance-the-field-of-synthetic-biology-302104514.html))
- 2023– — [parallel squared technology institute](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/pti) (company, active): the parallel squared technology institute, watertown — nikolai slavov and harrison specht's proteomics fro, funded out of the schmidt/griffin $50m. plexdia claims ~30x parallelization in mass-spec proteomics. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/pti), [$50m commitment (pti + eve bio)](https://www.schmidtfutures.org/schmidt-futures-and-ken-griffin-commit-50-million-to-support-the-next-big-breakthroughs-in-science/), [confirms $50m → pti and eve bio](https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/08/07/alzheimers-research-organization-grant/), [mit origin story](https://news.mit.edu/2025/former-mit-researchers-advance-new-model-innovation-0606))
- 2023– — [eve bio](https://evebio.org/about/) (company, active): pharmome mapping, durham nc — eve bio's systematic screen of every drug against every human protein. first public data release: 19 nuclear receptors × 1,397 compounds, cc by-nc-sa, hugging face write-up. fred houskeeper is ceo. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/eve-bio), [eve bio est](https://evebio.org/about/))
- 2023– — [forest neurotech](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/forest) (company, active): whole-brain ultrasound bci — sumner norman and taylor aflalo's fro, incubated at the astera institute before joining convergent. a five-year, $20m co-development deal with butterfly network (october 2023) built the forest 1 device, in an nhs trial by january 2025. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/forest), [forest neurotech × butterfly $20m deal](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231024884034/en/), [forest neurotech device in nhs trial](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/20/brain-implant-boost-mood-ultrasound-nhs-trial))
- 2023– — [[c]worthy](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/cworthy) (company, active): ocean carbon-dioxide-removal quantification, boulder — matt long and alicia karspeck's mrv fro; the oae efficiency map with carbonplan shipped october 2024. its funders include noaa and arpa-e — the first us-government money in the fro portfolio. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/cworthy), [fall 2025 retrospective](https://issues.org/focused-research-organizations-fro-marblestone-gamick-wang-fridman/))
- 2023– — [lean fro](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/lean) (company, active): the lean proof assistant's upkeep — leonardo de moura and sebastian ullrich's fro, funded by simons foundation international, sloan, richard merkin, and founders pledge, later joined by alex gerko's $5m direct gift. deepmind's imo-silver system ran on lean — the portfolio's most quotable downstream use. (sources: [formed jul 2023](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/lean), [lean fro launch + funders (simons, sloan, merkin, founders pledge)](https://web.archive.org/web/20241222074338/https:/lean-fro.org/about/), [mit origin story](https://news.mit.edu/2025/former-mit-researchers-advance-new-model-innovation-0606), [$18m xtx fund](https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/insights/ai-for-math-fund-announces-18-million-in-grants-to-accelerate-breakthrough-discoveries-in-mathematicsnbsp))
- 2023– — [imprint](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/imprint) (company, active): 'forensic immunology,' new york — beck brachman and nicholas greiff's fro decoding immune memory for chronic-disease research. publicly launched may 2025 with $15m from the schmidts, nycedc, peter reinhardt, and others. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/imprint), [imprint $15m launch](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/05/15/3082090/0/en/Imprint-Labs-Announces-15M-in-Funding-to-Decode-the-Immune-System-Facilitate-Chronic-Disease-Research.html), [convergent has secured funding from 30-plus individuals/organizations](https://biotechgrid.com/imprint-labs-launches-to-pioneer-forensic-immunology-for-chronic-disease/))
- 2023–2025 — [chi-fro](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/chi-fro) (company, handed-off): probabilistic computing — machine-executable models of mind, vikash mansinghka and josh tenenbaum. at convergent 2023–2025, then transitioned to the probabilistic computing foundation in february 2026 — the first non-death outcome in the fro line. governance and equity mechanics undisclosed. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/chi-fro), [chi-fro at convergent 2023–2025 → transitioned to probabilistic computing foundation](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/the-evolution-of-chi-fro))
- 2025– — [dragonfly](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/dragonfly) (company, active): astrophysics, chile — roberto abraham and pieter van dokkum's mothra array, 1,140 eyes on the cosmic web, funded by alex gerko/xtx. yale news covered it march 2026; the nature paper (~june 2026, reported) and a science bow-shock feature followed. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/dragonfly), [mothra/dragonfly fro telescope](https://news.yale.edu/2026/03/11/mothra-has-its-eyes-all-1140-them-focused-cosmic-web), [science news on mothra nature paper](https://www.science.org/content/article/new-telescope-reveals-missing-link-cosmic-recycling-matter), [convergent linkedin — dragonfly nature paper + fro framing](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/convergent-research_introducing-meridial-and-echo-labs-activity-7452341577986953216-n19Q))
- 2026– — [meridial](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/meridial) (company, active): living-brain connectivity microscopy, london — kathleen fisek's fro, launched april 2026 with a £14m initial aria award. the first of the uk cohort out of the founder residency. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/meridial), [meridial (£14m) + echo labs launch](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/convergent-research-and-aria-launch-two-new-uk-focused-research-organizations-302748565.html), [meridial + echo labs launch](https://www.bolsamania.com/nota-de-prensa/mercados/convergent-research-and-aria-launch-two-new-uk-focused-research-organizations--22322405.html))
- 2026– — [echo labs](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/echo-labs) (company, active): ecological intelligence, london — the second uk fro, launched alongside meridial; wasik, blank, and tindall. the aria frost-uk proof that the residency model converts. (sources: [convergentresearch.org](https://www.convergentresearch.org/ecosystem/echo-labs), [meridial (£14m) + echo labs launch](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/convergent-research-and-aria-launch-two-new-uk-focused-research-organizations-302748565.html), [meridial + echo labs launch](https://www.bolsamania.com/nota-de-prensa/mercados/convergent-research-and-aria-launch-two-new-uk-focused-research-organizations--22322405.html))
- 2026– — [melody](https://melodyfro.org/) (company, active): open bioelectronics for continuous molecular monitoring, pasadena — anand muthusamy's fro, incubated at convergent and publicly launched september 7, 2026 via a founder-authored roadmap post. not yet on the ecosystem page. (sources: [melody fro public launch](https://anandmuthusamy.substack.com/p/melody-fros-roadmap-for-open-bioelectronics), [melody mission](https://melodyfro.org/))
- 2025– — [the gap map](https://www.gap-map.org/about/) (staff, continuing): gap-map.org — the 'fundamental development gap map,' a public database of the bottlenecks the thesis names, launched april 2025. the fro-shaped problem made enumerable. (sources: [gap map v1](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/introducing-the-convergent-research), [gap-map database description](https://www.gap-map.org/about/))
- 2025– — [essential technology](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/how-to-build-essential-technology) (staff, continuing): the essential technology blog — launched february 2025 with marblestone's 'how to build essential technology.' carries the gap map launch, the residency dispatches, gamick's keynote, and the nsf rfi responses: the incubator's own press organ. (sources: [essential technology launch](https://www.convergentresearch.org/resources/convergent/launching-convergent-s-substack-essential-technology), [bridge-scale science](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/how-to-build-essential-technology))
- 2025– — [the founder residency](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the-uk-fro-founder-residency) (staff, continuing): the uk fro founder residency with aria — roughly ninety to a hundred applications, five teams, six months — that produced meridial and echo labs. institutional manufacturing run as a cohort, not a pipeline. (sources: [~90+ proposals](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/inside-the-uk-fro-founder-residency), [residency → 2 teams anchor-funded, 2026 launches](https://aria.org.uk/activation-partners/meet-our-activation-partners), [meridial (£14m) + echo labs launch](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/convergent-research-and-aria-launch-two-new-uk-focused-research-organizations-302748565.html), [fall 2025 retrospective](https://issues.org/focused-research-organizations-fro-marblestone-gamick-wang-fridman/))
- 2025– — the metascience alliance (staff, continuing): convergent joined the metascience alliance at its july 2025 launch in london — 830 participants from ~65 countries, gamick's day-3 keynote. the field-building arm. (sources: [gamick metascience 2025 keynote](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/forging-new-institutions-and-alliances), [gamick at metascience 2025 (jul 2)](https://www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-research-councils-2025-7-aria-to-launch-focused-research-organisation-within-a-year/))
- pre-2021 — [the pre-convergent orbit](https://adammarblestone.org/) (marblestone, continuing): marblestone's orbit before the incubator: helped start biobright; chief strategy officer at kernel; research scientist at google deepmind and in boyden's mit lab; fas fellow; schmidt futures innovation fellow; consulting research director for longevity at astera; boards at norn group, new science, and speculative technologies; the longitudinal science blog runs alongside. (sources: [ceo bio (deepmind, kernel, mit, church lab, boards, awards)](https://www.convergentresearch.org/team/adam-marblestone), [personal site](https://adammarblestone.org/), [bio incl](https://events.foresight.org/summary/adam-marblestone-design-tools/), [marblestones launch-day media index](https://longitudinal.blog/2021/10/18/selected-mentions-of-the-focused-research-organization-fro-concept-online/))
- 2024– — [renaissance philanthropy](https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/former-clinton-and-obama-science-staffer-launches-new-philanthropic-organization) (kalil, active): kalil's post-schmidt vehicle — renaissance philanthropy, launched may 2024 with kumar garg and a founding donation from eric and wendy schmidt. runs the 'big if true science' accelerator (which incubates its own fros), mid-scale-science playbooks, and the $18m xtx ai for math fund. a sibling, not a parent. (sources: [kalil launches renaissance](https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/former-clinton-and-obama-science-staffer-launches-new-philanthropic-organization), [launch coverage](https://www.axios.com/2024/05/06/tom-kalil-launches-renaissance-philanthropy), [kalil+garg roles](https://www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/2024-6-13-how-a-new-philanthropy-advisory-firm-aims-to-drive-science-and-tech-innovation-with-new-models-and-emerging-donors), [$18m xtx fund](https://www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/insights/ai-for-math-fund-announces-18-million-in-grants-to-accelerate-breakthrough-discoveries-in-mathematicsnbsp), [renaissance very early supporters of convergent](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/renaissancephilanthropy_kalils-corner-developing-targeted-therapies-activity-7498795311033737216-qYqc))
- 2023– — futurehouse (rodriques, active): rodriques' own shop — futurehouse, co-founded 2023, a private lab for ai-for-science that sits outside the canonical fro line; his cell commentary the same year catalogued fro-like organizations. (sources: [correa interviews marblestone & rodriques](https://fas.org/publication/nsf-supercharge-independent-tech-labs/), [cites tbi report + rodriques cell commentary](https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02080-7))
- 2021– — the fro board seats (gamick, continuing): gamick's second job — she sits on the boards of forest neurotech, eve bio, cultivarium, dragonfly, and [c]worthy, plus the unitary fund. the governance half of 'mission control': convergent holds board seats in the orgs it hatches. (sources: [president bio (neuralink, creator, segovia, curative](https://www.convergentresearch.org/team/anastasia-gamick), [fall 2025 retrospective](https://issues.org/focused-research-organizations-fro-marblestone-gamick-wang-fridman/))
- 2021– — [rejuvenome (astera × buck)](https://www.buckinstitute.org/news/astera-institute-and-buck-institute-announce-70-million-collaboration-to-redefine-the-field-of-research-on-aging/) (community, active): the astera institute's rejuvenome — a $70m, ~seven-year multi-omics aging-intervention mouse study with the buck institute, announced october 13, 2021. astera calls it 'the first fro' it funded — the third fro of the launch wave and the proof the model travels outside convergent. outcomes still pending. (sources: [$70m astera×buck rejuvenome](https://www.buckinstitute.org/news/astera-institute-and-buck-institute-announce-70-million-collaboration-to-redefine-the-field-of-research-on-aging/), [seemay chou](https://asterainstitute.substack.com/p/identifying-systemic-bottlenecks), [astera fro program page incl](https://web.archive.org/web/20230204100039/https://astera.org/fros/), [tbi report summary](https://progress.substack.com/p/whats-your-fro))
- 2022– — [parpa → speculative technologies](https://blog.spec.tech/p/introducing-speculative-technologies) (community, active): ben reinhardt's parpa — the 'private arpa' program-manager model — became speculative technologies in 2023. not fros but the same scene: the complementary template the discourse pairs convergent against, with marblestone on its board and an aria collaboration of its own. (sources: [reinhardts private arpa design essay](https://blog.benjaminreinhardt.com/parpa), [parpa→speculative technologies](https://blog.spec.tech/p/introducing-speculative-technologies), [aria collaboration](https://blog.spec.tech/p/speculative-technologies-2023-year), [systems research framing vs fro categorization](https://blog.spec.tech/p/systems-research), [personal site](https://adammarblestone.org/))
- 2024– — [bind research](https://bindresearch.org/) (community, active): bind research — the independent uk fro for disordered proteins, competitively funded through the uk's research ventures catalyst. the fro line that never passed through convergent. (sources: [independent uk fro](https://bindresearch.org/), [uk rvc awardees incl](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/research-ventures-catalyst-successful-applications), [fall 2025 retrospective](https://issues.org/focused-research-organizations-fro-marblestone-gamick-wang-fridman/))
- 2025– — [nsf tech labs](https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-new-initiative-launch-scale-new-generation) (community, active): nsf tip's tech labs pilot — up to $1b for fro-style independent labs, the model's federal adoption. convergent answered the rfi and offered to be the implementation partner; whether the nonprofit/public-goods/sunset features survive federalization is the open question. (sources: [nsf tip tech labs rfi](https://www.nsf.gov/news/nsf-announces-new-initiative-launch-scale-new-generation), [nsf tip tech labs initiative + rfi](https://www.nsf.gov/tip/updates/nsf-announces-new-initiative-launch-scale-new-generation), [tech labs rfi](https://sam.gov/workspace/contract/opp/7332ade93217443ba8c9abb916904e03/view), [convergents nsf tech labs rfi responses](https://www.essentialtechnology.blog/p/our-responses-to-the-nsf-tech-labs))
- 2025 — [ifp's x-labs](https://www.rebuilding.tech/posts/launching-x-labs-for-transformative-science-funding) (community, continuing): the institute for progress's x-labs proposal — caleb watney's x02 execution awards (≈ fros) and x03 block grants (≈ incubators like convergent). the mission-control pattern generalized into policy language. (sources: [ifp/watney x-labs (x02/x03) proposal](https://www.rebuilding.tech/posts/launching-x-labs-for-transformative-science-funding), [correa interviews marblestone & rodriques](https://fas.org/publication/nsf-supercharge-independent-tech-labs/))

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